how many calories do you burn?

Question

if you weight 160 lbs and your climb stairs with a 70 lbs vest on, how many calories do you burn in 30 minutes? would you burn the same amount as somone who weighs 70 lbs heavier (230lbs)?

Answer 1

Since charts that figure the calories burned are based on your weight, you would count the weight of the vest in as your weight. So yes, you would enter your weight as 230 pounds.

In order to figure out the calories burned, please go to this wonderful site, enter your weight, choose the exercise from the pull down menu. Click go. Then page down and pick the appropriate time frame and it will tell you how many calories you burned!

http://www.fatburn.com/free_tool_activity_burn.asp